@Gunnar: As I said in the bug report, this is an installation which uses user accounts and groups from an LDAP directory. There is an LDAP group for all network-wide admins, and I am in this group. This group is enabled for sudo and policykit admin rights in the appropriate config files, and I expect all users within this group to have all available permissions. I certainly don't want to edit code files in /usr/lib to give myself additional rights.
I also don't want do put all admin users into the local groups "sudo" or "admin", because this defeats the whole purpose of an LDAP directory (i.e., I would have to change files on all machines in the network whenever there is a new admin or one leaves). It is also not an option to distribute the groups "sudo" and "admin" via LDAP, because then nothing works on the machine in an emergency when the LDAP server is down (it is generally not recommended to distribute any uids and gids < 1000 via LDAP for this reason). You are also wrong about the "way that is compatible with how Ubuntu handles these things". Ubuntu uses sudo and policykit, and I am using these ways. Note that language-selector does not need to know about the existence of any files (and should not), it should just ask policykit whether the user has admin rights. That's the way all other applications work (if they don't use sudo). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to language-selector in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1008344 Title: [Precise] Language selector won't allow me to install languages Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: In a new install of Ubuntu Precise, I cannot make any system-wide changes in the language selector (such as installing languages or clicking "Apply System-Wide"), only user-specific changes. All those controls for system-wide changes are greyed out, although my user does have sudo abilities and I would be able to enter the root password of the machine. The machine is freshly installed, but with customizations specific to our site, e.g. ldap authentication for users. Specifically, my user is an ldap user, not a local one, and there is a group in the ldap directory which was granted sudo capability by adding it to /etc/sudoers. My user is part of that group. sudo on the command line and gksudo work fine. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: language-selector-gnome 0.79 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic 3.2.16 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Jun 4 08:20:04 2012 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US: TERM=screen-256color PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: language-selector UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/1008344/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
